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Patients and Practitioners
Cambridge University Press 1986; US$ 46.00The essays in this volume provide an unusual historical perspective on the experience of illness. more...
Abortion, Doctors and the Law
Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 40.00This book focusses on the evolution of the law and medical practice of abortion in England. more...
Charitable Knowledge
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 66.00Charitable Knowledge explores the formation of the teaching hospital in eighteenth-century London. more...
The Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 17501820
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 40.00This book studies the evolution of medical theory and education in Germany between 1750 and 1820. more...
Old Age and Disease in Early Modern Medicine
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2011; US$ 99.00This book takes a thematic look at the historical roots of the debate surrounding old age and disease. more...
The Philosophy of Evidence-based Medicine
Wiley 2011; US$ 64.95Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has become a required element of clinical practice, but it is critical for the healthcare community to understand the ongoing controversy surrounding EBM. Seeking to address questions raised by critics, The Philosophy of Evidence-based Medicine challenges the over dependency of EBM on randomized controlled trials. This... more...
The History of Medicine
OUP Oxford 2008; US$ 9.99Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times to the present. Focussing on the key turning points in the history of Western medicine, such as the advent of hospitals and the rise of experimental medicine, Bill Bynum offers insights into... more...
A History of Intelligence and "Intellectual Disability"
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 69.95C.F. Goodey traces the interplay between human types and the changing characteristics attributed to them, from the twelfth-century beginnings of European social administration through to the onset of today's formal human science disciplines. In proposing a theory of intellectual disability as historically contingent, this paradigm-shifting work... more...
International Relations in Psychiatry
Boydell & Brewer 2010; US$ 85.00Addresses a crucial period in the history of psychiatry by examining the mutual perceptions and transfer processes of conceptual, institutional, and financial resources and the migration of psychiatrists between Britain, the United States, and Germany. more...
Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages
OUP Oxford 2006; US$ 134.99Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages investigates the common medieval belief that magic could cause impotence, focusing particularly on the period 1150-1450. The subject has never been studied in detail before, but there is a surprisingly large amount of information about it in four kinds of source: confessors' manuals; medical compendia that... more...









